What the federal government's stimulus package will mean for Indiana roads, how Super Bowl host cities have planned for traffic, and the 100th anniversary of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway were among the topics discussed March 10-12 at the 95th annual Purdue Road School.

Issued by the Indiana Geographic Information Council, the award was presented at the 2009 Indiana GIS Conference.

The latest seminar in the Drag Distinguished Lecture Series was held at Bowen Lab on Friday, March 27th. Michael D. Engelhardt, the DeWitt C. Greer Centennial Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, gave his lecture titled, "Structural Fire Engineering: Current Issues and Future Trends."

Prof. Cary Troy's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) took its maiden launch Oct. 2nd at Lake Maxinkuckee in Culver, Indiana.

Civil Engineering graduate C.J. Chang, Ph.D. 1979, president of Chung Hua University in Taiwan, was one of the recipients of the Purdue College of Engineering 2006 Distinguished Engineering Alumni awards on February 23, 2007.

CE Alum Ron Klemencic, of Magnusson Klemencic Associates, Inc., has been named among the Top 25 newsmakers of 2008 by Engineering News-Record

The conference is designed to provide a forum for the exchange of technical and administrative information concerning aspects of roundabouts with the goal to inform a large audience about the science and application of roundabouts.

Prof. Drnevich has been appointed by Gov. Mitch Daniels to represent the education position on the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers.

This volume provides the first systematic, in-depth introduction to the basic theories & principles of LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology and data processing.

CE Senior David Truong represented Purdue & EPICS as an ambassador at the United Nations' 4th session of the World Urban Forum in Nanjing, China

The School of Civil Engineering is seeking outstanding applicants for three named professorships. The deadline for applications is November 15, 2008.

Prof. Jie Shan has recently been selected as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Geoscience & Remote Sensing, and the Assistant Editor for Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing.

Two new courses will be offered in the spring that focus on Architectural Engineering: "Intro to Architectural Engineering," and "Architecture & Technology"

Detailed maps depicting the severity of the floods that impacted southern Indiana in June 2008

CE Grad Student Heather Gall is studying environmental engineering and working on a research project that monitors hormone levels in the waters of local streams and tile drains.

Research led by Prof. Chad Jafvert suggests synthetic carbon molecules called fullerenes, or buckyballs, have a high potential of being accumulated in animal tissue, but the molecules also appear to break down in sunlight, perhaps reducing their possible environmental dangers.

Bowen Engineering won an Aon Build America Award for its Central Energy Plant Indianapolis Maintenance Center Utility Connector, which was also recognized as Project of the Year for a new installation by trade publication Trenchless Technology. Article courtesy of Indiana Constructor magazine.

Sanjiv Kumar, a PhD Student working with Prof. Venkatesh Merwade in the Hydraulics & Hydrology area, won first prize in the Graduate Student Research Competition at TeraGrid '08.

Video of Prof. Fred Mannering debating a proposed national speed limit of 55 on the Fox News show "Fox & Friends," which aired July 10th.